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“You can never tell what’s around the corner”: Here’s how to nail succession planning

Chartered Management Institute

This was back in 2010, and Bill was planning to retire within three years, then sell the business via a management buyout process (MBO) to a new management team that he would put together. But first, he had to recruit his successor. It took hundreds of applicants to land the right person.

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Seven Steps to Start a Consulting Business

Chart Your Course

According to MBO Partners, a support service for independent consultants, boomers are a fast growing sector of the independent workforce. In its 2012 Independent Workforce Index, MBO Partners estimates that boomers account for around a third of all independent consultants. Will they retire, work part-time or start new endeavors?

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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was recently published as a guest post on SmartBlog on Leadership : Question: What do these five “established” jobs: - Call Center Representative. Unfortunately, his ideas were ruined by management consultants who turned “MBO” into a bureaucratic mess. The Colosseum. ?This Salesperson. Truck Driver. Consultants.

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Guest Blogger George L. Morrisey: Are You Ready for Strategic Planning?

leaderCommunicator

A pioneer in the process known as Management By Objectives (MBO), he wrote the first how-to book on MBO for managers in 1970. Get more leadership best practices by visiting The Grossman Group's CEO Ultimate Resource Center. He is the author or co-author of 19 books, including the three-book series, Morrisey on Planning.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Teach and institute leadership to improve all job functions. Substitute leadership methods for improvement. Eliminate MBO. All of this implies a more-progressive approach to leadership. Institute on-the-job training. Drive out fear; create trust. Strive to reduce intradepartmental conflicts. Avoid numerical goals. .”

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